spacecraft
noun
space·craft
ˈspās-ˌkraft 
: a vehicle or device designed for travel or operation outside the earth's atmosphere
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Building on earlier work Arc follows Inversion’s smaller demonstration spacecraft, Ray, which launched in January on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 rideshare mission.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2025
Prolonged radiation and geomagnetic activity can interfere with GPS networks, disrupt radio signals and damage spacecraft.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The Europa Clipper spacecraft is due to reach Jupiter's moon of the same name in 2030 and begin conducting flybys to observe the icy world, where water is believed to exist beneath the surface.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
One particular problem was the relatively low resolution available from a mass spectrometer on Cassini called the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA), which parsed the chemical composition of puffs of dust from ice grains striking its detectors each time the spacecraft swooped through a plume.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2025
Prolonged radiation and geomagnetic activity can interfere with GPS networks, disrupt radio signals and damage spacecraft.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The Europa Clipper spacecraft is due to reach Jupiter's moon of the same name in 2030 and begin conducting flybys to observe the icy world, where water is believed to exist beneath the surface.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
One particular problem was the relatively low resolution available from a mass spectrometer on Cassini called the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA), which parsed the chemical composition of puffs of dust from ice grains striking its detectors each time the spacecraft swooped through a plume.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Spacecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spacecraft. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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spacecraft
noun
space·craft
ˈspā-ˌskraft
plural spacecraft
: a vehicle for travel beyond the earth's atmosphere
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